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Definition of ministerial in English: ministerialadjective mɪnɪˈstɪərɪəlˌmɪnəˈstɪriəl 1Relating to a government minister or ministers. （与）部长（或大臣）（有关）的 a back-bencher who had never held ministerial office 从未任过部长的后座议员。 Example sentencesExamples - What we know is that police, Norfolk Island Police, were called to his ministerial office at about lunch time today.
- But the senior Government whip has just indicated that we have just had two speeches from Ministers in a ministerial statement situation.
- And a party associating with an armed group of people, albeit one honouring a prolonged ceasefire, cannot hold ministerial office in the Republic of Ireland.
- The Prime Minister has no ministerial responsibility for the Labour list.
- Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble will today table a motion in the Assembly to exclude Sinn Féin from ministerial office.
- They claimed that I was just following the party line or that ministerial office had bought me off (which to anyone involved in Westminster is clearly nonsense).
- Mollien's ministerial term of office thus spanned nine years, covering a territory spreading over most of continental Europe.
- Thus, we see the frequent use of government via ministerial order rather than legislation; the MO being the instrument found unconstitutional just two weeks ago.
- After 15 days, an agreement was reached through which the Lefts and the Greens were excluded from ministerial office, but would keep the government in power.
- He has an abundance of political experience, including senior ministerial office, and will relish the challenge of heading the new beefed-up Transport Department.
- It is now common knowledge that she expected to be appointed to a ministerial office as soon as Labor was returned to government.
- As Macmillan steps up the ministerial pecking order from Housing to Defence to Foreign Minister and Chancellor, the politics become more interesting.
- Representatives from nationalist and unionist parties may have held ministerial office, but there was clearly no genuine effort to govern together.
- Eleven of the 17 junior ministers have previous ministerial experience.
- But in light of his political biography there can be no doubt of his preparedness to assume a ministerial office in a Union-led government.
- About 40 presidents and royalty, ten prime ministers and 43 ministerial delegations have been billed to attend.
- Despite one minister relinquishing his ministerial portfolio, the country is still not confident that there is integrity in public life.
- He said the legislation body took the initiative to draft bills on the presidency, the presidential advisory board and on ministerial offices, all of which are also prioritized for this year.
- This November in Miami, thousands are preparing to resist the ministerial meetings on the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
- Other than that, it is perfectly reasonable for us to assume that if we put a question down to a Minister with a ministerial responsibility, that Minister will be here to answer it.
Synonyms governmental, government, local government, parliamentary, party political, diplomatic, legislative, policy-making, constitutional, public, civic, state, administrative, bureaucratic 2Relating to a minister of religion. （与）牧师（有关）的 the basic ministerial stipend Example sentencesExamples - In the next two sections he looks at issues in ministerial life and the wider church.
- YTM provides theological, spiritual, and ministerial formation both to high-school students and to their teachers and ministers.
- The following year 17 candidates were accepted for ministerial training, rising to 25 in 2002 and 33 last year.
- On the other hand, many churches have been harmed by insufficient attention to ministerial training.
- The formation of ministerial students in congregations and in the church is no longer taking place.
- Furthermore, the church has the good sense to know that, in placing a person in a position of ministerial leadership, he or she is exposed to a unique array of temptations.
- Another article explaining the ministerial use of reason in general is Loving God With All Your Mind: Logic and Creation.
- In short, the presbyteral priesthood was at the center of the sacramental understanding of ministerial order.
- It felt both humbling and a bit nostalgic to lecture, in God's providence to 240 ministerial students in the place I was once called to serve.
- Given such practices, one can imagine the opposition any suggestion that women be allowed to participate in the ministerial priesthood might raise.
- It is not uncommon for a minister to drive 6-10,000 miles per year in carrying out the ministerial duties for a congregation.
- It is this kind of ecclesiology that will lead to a ministerial leadership and ecclesial structures that will equip believers for their callings.
- I vividly remember reporting the 1971 Synod on the ministerial priesthood when influential voices were calling for an end to the celibacy rule.
- The other day I was looking up a picture of a ministerial colleague in the mug-shot book of the ELCA's Metropolitan Chicago Synod.
- I will look also at some intriguing hints that Rome may be reconsidering its position that Anglican ministerial orders are null and void.
- Ivan has been attending the church for 5 years, first as a ministerial student and for the last three years as assistant pastor.
- Methodists do not believe in the ministerial priesthood; Stanley does.
- Some of the freer churches don't even ask their ministerial candidates to commit themselves formally to any belief about Scripture, let alone creation.
- Nowhere in the three articles does one find a reflection on what celibacy can do for the ministerial priesthood, or for the priest himself.
- A third task addresses continuing ministerial education and ongoing support for deacons.
Synonyms priestly, clerical, ecclesiastic, prelatic, canonical, parsonical, pastoral 3Law
Relating to or entrusted with the execution of the law or the commands of a superior. Example sentencesExamples - However, Gecas can seek a judicial review of the ministerial decision.
- If the Court pleases, this matter concerns the transfer of mining leases from one of the BHP companies to the applicant, and the refusal of ministerial consent to that transfer.
- The convention of ministerial responsibility is not enforced by the judiciary.
- No, your Honour, you can exclude them by respect of a ministerial decision not to grant them a visa.
- That, however, was where the suggested alternative remedy was a ministerial default power rather than a statutory appeal process.
Derivativesadverb In that respect, I am disappointed in Parliament, but we will no doubt get another chance to debate it, and it is as it should be that Parliament, ultimately, decides these things, not a bunch of ministerially appointed experts. Example sentencesExamples - You cannot separate what you are from what you do; you cannot separate the effect of truth upon your own relationship to God personally from the effect of truth through you ministerially.
- The contract claim turns on clause 17 which may be described as payment in accordance with ministerially determined rates.
- Creationists have nothing against science being used ministerially, i.e. to build on the framework provided by the propositional teachings of Scripture, e.g. to build models to help elucidate Scripture.
- If anybody actually believes that the ministerially appointed committee will honour the agreement, or that promise, given all those years ago, he or she is dreaming.
OriginMid 16th century: from French ministériel or late Latin ministerialis, from Latin ministerium 'ministry'. Rhymesarterial, bacterial, cereal, criterial, ethereal, ferial, funereal, immaterial, imperial, magisterial, managerial, material, presbyterial, serial, sidereal, venereal, biomaterial Definition of ministerial in US English: ministerialadjectiveˌminəˈstirēəlˌmɪnəˈstɪriəl 1Relating to a minister of religion. （与）牧师（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - Nowhere in the three articles does one find a reflection on what celibacy can do for the ministerial priesthood, or for the priest himself.
- A third task addresses continuing ministerial education and ongoing support for deacons.
- On the other hand, many churches have been harmed by insufficient attention to ministerial training.
- It is this kind of ecclesiology that will lead to a ministerial leadership and ecclesial structures that will equip believers for their callings.
- I vividly remember reporting the 1971 Synod on the ministerial priesthood when influential voices were calling for an end to the celibacy rule.
- It is not uncommon for a minister to drive 6-10,000 miles per year in carrying out the ministerial duties for a congregation.
- In short, the presbyteral priesthood was at the center of the sacramental understanding of ministerial order.
- The other day I was looking up a picture of a ministerial colleague in the mug-shot book of the ELCA's Metropolitan Chicago Synod.
- Methodists do not believe in the ministerial priesthood; Stanley does.
- Given such practices, one can imagine the opposition any suggestion that women be allowed to participate in the ministerial priesthood might raise.
- Another article explaining the ministerial use of reason in general is Loving God With All Your Mind: Logic and Creation.
- In the next two sections he looks at issues in ministerial life and the wider church.
- I will look also at some intriguing hints that Rome may be reconsidering its position that Anglican ministerial orders are null and void.
- It felt both humbling and a bit nostalgic to lecture, in God's providence to 240 ministerial students in the place I was once called to serve.
- Some of the freer churches don't even ask their ministerial candidates to commit themselves formally to any belief about Scripture, let alone creation.
- Ivan has been attending the church for 5 years, first as a ministerial student and for the last three years as assistant pastor.
- Furthermore, the church has the good sense to know that, in placing a person in a position of ministerial leadership, he or she is exposed to a unique array of temptations.
- The following year 17 candidates were accepted for ministerial training, rising to 25 in 2002 and 33 last year.
- The formation of ministerial students in congregations and in the church is no longer taking place.
- YTM provides theological, spiritual, and ministerial formation both to high-school students and to their teachers and ministers.
Synonyms priestly, clerical, ecclesiastic, prelatic, canonical, parsonical, pastoral 2Relating to a government minister or ministers. （与）部长（或大臣）（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - And a party associating with an armed group of people, albeit one honouring a prolonged ceasefire, cannot hold ministerial office in the Republic of Ireland.
- But the senior Government whip has just indicated that we have just had two speeches from Ministers in a ministerial statement situation.
- Eleven of the 17 junior ministers have previous ministerial experience.
- Thus, we see the frequent use of government via ministerial order rather than legislation; the MO being the instrument found unconstitutional just two weeks ago.
- Representatives from nationalist and unionist parties may have held ministerial office, but there was clearly no genuine effort to govern together.
- He has an abundance of political experience, including senior ministerial office, and will relish the challenge of heading the new beefed-up Transport Department.
- This November in Miami, thousands are preparing to resist the ministerial meetings on the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
- He said the legislation body took the initiative to draft bills on the presidency, the presidential advisory board and on ministerial offices, all of which are also prioritized for this year.
- What we know is that police, Norfolk Island Police, were called to his ministerial office at about lunch time today.
- It is now common knowledge that she expected to be appointed to a ministerial office as soon as Labor was returned to government.
- Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble will today table a motion in the Assembly to exclude Sinn Féin from ministerial office.
- The Prime Minister has no ministerial responsibility for the Labour list.
- After 15 days, an agreement was reached through which the Lefts and the Greens were excluded from ministerial office, but would keep the government in power.
- Mollien's ministerial term of office thus spanned nine years, covering a territory spreading over most of continental Europe.
- But in light of his political biography there can be no doubt of his preparedness to assume a ministerial office in a Union-led government.
- About 40 presidents and royalty, ten prime ministers and 43 ministerial delegations have been billed to attend.
- As Macmillan steps up the ministerial pecking order from Housing to Defence to Foreign Minister and Chancellor, the politics become more interesting.
- Despite one minister relinquishing his ministerial portfolio, the country is still not confident that there is integrity in public life.
- Other than that, it is perfectly reasonable for us to assume that if we put a question down to a Minister with a ministerial responsibility, that Minister will be here to answer it.
- They claimed that I was just following the party line or that ministerial office had bought me off (which to anyone involved in Westminster is clearly nonsense).
Synonyms governmental, government, local government, parliamentary, party political, diplomatic, legislative, policy-making, constitutional, public, civic, state, administrative, bureaucratic 3archaic Acting as an agent, instrument, or means in achieving a purpose. 〈古〉作为代理（或工具、手段）的 those uses of conversation which are ministerial to intellectual culture 谈话作为智育教育手段的运用。 Example sentencesExamples - Bloom saw society as ministerial to the university.
- For Strauss, then, who closely followed the classics on this subject, foreign policy is ministerial to domestic policy.
OriginMid 16th century: from French ministériel or late Latin ministerialis, from Latin ministerium ‘ministry’. |